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J. GALLEGOS. ELECTRICAL FOOT GEAR.

No. 603,136 PatentedApr. 26,1898

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSE GALLEGOS, OF GUATEMALA, GUATEMALA.

ELECTRICAL FOOT-G EAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 603,135, dated. April 26, 1898.

Application filed March 5, 1898.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J osE GALLEGOS, of Guatemala, Guatemala, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Electrical Foot- Gear, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention is a device adapted to shoes, slippers, and other foot-gear, and serving to generate currents of static electricity, which are transmitted to the person wearing the foot-gear.

This specification is the disclosure of one form of my invention, while the claims define the actual scope thereof.

' Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a vertical section of a shoe to which my invention is applied. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the generating-insole of my invention, and Fig. 3 is a plan view of the insulating-insole.

The invention comprises an insulating-insole (1, of silk or leather, which is laid on the ordinary sole of the foot-gear, as illustrated in Fig. 1, and a generating-insole b, which is laid over the insulating-insole a, as also shown in Fig. 1. The generating-insole b is formed of knit fabric, the strands of said fabric being of wool or cotton or any other suitable material and having glass beads strung thereon, so as to cover the strands.

These beads Serial No. 672,674. (No model.)

are sufficiently small as to permit the easy fabrication of the insole b, so that the same will have the appearance shown in Fig. 2.

\Vhen the parts are arranged as shown and described, the wearer of the foot-gear, as he Walks, will cause such friction between the insole a and the beads on the insole Z) as to induce static electricity, which is prevented by the intervention of the insole a from passing to the ground, and such electricity therefore passes into the body of the person wearing the foot-gear, so as to have on such person the well-known remedial effects.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- 1. An electrical generator for foot-gear, having an insulating-insole, and a generating-insole laid on the insulating-insole, the generating-insole being formed of a fabric composed of woven strands covered with glass beads.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a static electrical generator for frictional contact with the human body, said generator consisting in a closely-formed fabric composed of strands covered with glass beads, the beads lying close to each other and forming the surfaces of the fabric.

JOSE GALLEGOS. WVitnesses:

JUAN S. PERALTA, MANUEL GONZALEZ AZUEDIA. 

